Into the Mud: True Stories of Africa

Inspiration for Everyday Activists

Aids patients. Malnourished babies. Child soldiers. If we look only to media accounts, Africa can appear mired in a decades-long, failed attempt to imitate the West. But holistic missionary Christine Jeske sees another story unfolding, a spiritual story of transformation.

Through accounts of ordinary individuals, Jeske reveals people and communities in South Africa that are being changed into something new, something holy . . . refashioned by God to exist afresh in the muck of daily life. Along the way, she uncovers glimpses of God's kingdom breaking out among those to whom Jesus said it belonged—not the deserving or the religious, but the poor.